Createspace Independent Publishing Platform No place like home, thank god: a 22,000 mile bicycle ride around europe, paperback/steven primrose-smith

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Amazon UK Bestseller Number 1 in Cycling and Top 3 in Travel and in Sport After a near fatal brain haemorrhage Steven Primrose-Smith decides that life is too short to hang around.

Inspired, he jumps on his bicycle to travel a road that stretches 22, 000 miles across the whole of Europe.

During his ride through 53 countries, climbing the equivalent of 20 Everests, he dodges forest fires, packs of wild dogs and stray bulls, is twice mistaken for a tramp, meets a man in Bulgaria who lives under a table, discovers if ambassadors really do dish out pyramids of Ferrero Rocher at parties, transforms into a superhero after being savaged by radioactive mosquitoes near Chernobyl and comes close to death in France, Norway, Ukraine and Russia.

Such a massive challenge requires calories and Steven gets his from the more unsavoury elements of European savouries: brains, testicles, lung and spleen stew, intestine sandwiches, sausages famous for smelling of poo, a handful of maggots and even a marmot.

Nobody eats marmots.

But the distance and his culinary adventures are only a part of the mission.

His real objective is much more difficult.

Will he be able to confirm something he has long suspected or will he, after all his searching, eventually find somewhere in Europe worse than his home town of Blackburn?Recent Amazon review comments: If you love travel, you will love this book This is by far the best cycle-based travel book I have read.

I could not put it down It's very well-written, naturally funny without trying too hard and.

about the places and people he discovers, not the bike itself.

Inspirational and very funny.

Highly entertaining - you'll laugh out loud.

This is the funniest book I've read for a very long time.

It's so much more than a story about a bike ride - it's a travelogue, a witty and astute observation about people and life, a candid description of many places you'd never even dream of visiting Once you start to read it, I guarantee you WON'T put it down.

I lau.